los, verb transitive

/lɔs/
Origin:
Afrikaans.
slang
To leave (a person or persons) alone; to drop (a matter). Also in the phrase to los uit/- ˈeɪt//- ˈœɪt/ [Afrikaans, uit out, alone], in the same senses.
1983 Fair Lady 19 Oct. 48There’s nothing like a whitey trying to be a blackie. You know, los uit.
[1987 Personality 4 Nov. 31They kept on urging me to have a drink with them...They..insisted, calling me a spoil-sport and worse names. They got very abusive but I told them to los die saak.]
1991 P. Slabolepszy Braait Laaities. 15Boikie: I phone downstairs. There was no answer. Moira: Well, then you must los them. It’s not happening.
1993 ‘Jimbo’ programme insert, NapacLos me! Let me go!
To leave (a person or persons) alone; to drop (a matter). Also in the phrase to los uit/- ˈeɪt//- ˈœɪt/ [Afrikaans, uit out, alone], in the same senses.
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Lords Seventeen, noun phrasen. phr.losieshuis, nounn.
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